How 1,000 Bees Delayed an American Airlines Flight in Dallas

No, bees on a plane is not Samuel L. Jackson’s next hot movie, but it is what recently happening to an American Airlines flight at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on Thursday, when nearly 1000 bees decided to follow their queen bee and check out the exterior of the aircraft. The ground crew was unloading baggage from the plane when they noticed the swarm of bees under one of the wings and a local beekeeper was called to clear the cloud of insects and capture the queen, according to NBC News. The Boeing 767 was preparing for a flight to Frankfurt and, unfortunately, suffered a second visit from the bees after the luggage was loaded. The beekeeper again handled the situation and, luckily, no bees made their way into the passenger cabin and no one was stung.

These Texan bees aren’t the only stowaways trying to catch a free flight. In 2012, CNN reported that everyone’s worst fears were realized when there was a snake on the plane. The smuggled Egyptian cobra escaped from a carry-on bag on an Egypt Air flight from Cairo to Kuwait. A mouse running through a plane in Madrid caused a six-hour delay and, in February, an Alaska Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Portland was delayed after flight attendants hunted down a scorpion that bit a passenger.